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On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.

Erri De Luca Tre cavalli cynicism gloomy introspection life living

I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyteller. If I am someone else, it's also because books move men more than journeys …

Erri De Luca books learning life reading

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

Erri De Luca Tre cavalli life longing self

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

Erri De Luca war

I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

Erri De Luca Tre cavalli ignorance knowledge nostalgia smart

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

Erri De Luca Tre cavalli bible psalms

Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.

Erri De Luca Tre cavalli motivation motivational

A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.

Erri De Luca Tre cavalli death

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

Erri De Luca Tre cavalli fighting soldier war warrior

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.

Erri De Luca Tre cavalli books reading

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'The Godfather' role Luca -- 51.43%
Setting for Pixar's "Luca" 50.00%
"The Godfather" hoodlum Luca 47.37%
Corleone enforcer Luca 47.06%
Artist Luca ____ Robbia 46.67%
"The Godfather" enforcer Luca 46.15%
'The Godfather' character Luca -- 45.00%
Country where "Luca" is set 43.24%
Ill-fated Corleone hoodlum Luca 41.86%
Casarosa who directed Pixar's "Luca" 39.13%
Site of church of Madonna di S. Luca. 38.30%
Luca in Disney's "Luca" or the kraken 38.30%
Sculptor Luca ___ Robbia 37.50%
Luca ___, "The Godfather" henchman 35.90%
Luca ___, "The Godfather" character 35.00%
Henchman Luca of "The Godfather" 28.57%
Country where "Luca" and "La Dolce Vita" are set 28.57%
Weapon used to make Luca Brasi sleep with the fishes 28.12%
Author of the line "It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes" 24.66%
Luca of "The Godfather" 24.24%

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Unscramble ERRI 4-letter words that start with E 4-letter words that end in I 4-letter words containing RR 4-letter words containing RI 4-letter words with E and R

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Hint 1 meaning

A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.

Hint 2 anagram

LCAT

Hint 3 another clue

BABY DOCTOR FOR SHORT

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